Re: Kerneld vs. kmod in 2.2.x

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:49:20 +0300 (MSK)


In <01J7W3E5QA8Y0011B8@rcum.uni-mb.si> DAVID BALAZIC (david.balazic@uni-mb.si) wrote:
> I'm resending this , since the last mail never appeared on
> the mail-list archive at www.tux.org and I got no responses either.

> So , I upgraded my 2.0.x system to a 2.2.x kernel ( 2.2.2-pre4 ).

> I selected modules support , no symbol versioning and kmod.

> I forgot to remove kerneld ( 2.1.121 ) from my rc scripts,
> but discovered that it works OK.

Not at all.

> The modules are loaded on demand and removed after use.

> Is this normal ?

Yes.

> Can I continue to use kerneld and remove kmod from kernel ?

No. Since now kmod is used for autoloading, not kerneld anyway.

> Any other comment ?

You have kerneld in memory. Since there are no code in kernel to communicate
with kerneld anymore kerneld will not handle autoloading, kmod will. Kerneld
still doing autounloading but it's the same thing as `rmmod -a` in crontab
in setup without kerneld.

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